I know that there are a lot of ways to have your online activity tracked. And, I thought
I understood many or most of them.
But, I tried out Gemini with the request, "write a two page article on
Stoicism." The results were interesting and pretty good and give me an idea of what
Gemini can do.
A week, or less later, yesterday, I get an email from Facebook suggesting that I join the
"Daily Stoicism" group.
WTF. I never use Facebook and basically ignore their reminders on how many notifications
or messages I have.
AFAIK, there is no legal way Facebook should know what I am doing with Google, unless
Google is providing them the information on a back channel.
Am I missing something? Everything I know suggest that I would have had to visit a
Facebook site sometime between my Gemini request and my receipt of an email from Facebook.
Or possibly have visited a Facebook site before my Gemini request and not have directly
entered a URL or used a bookmark in the interim. AFAIK, those things didn't happen.